Grassroots leviathan : agricultural reform and the rural North in the slaveholding republic / Ariel Ron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ron, Ariel, 1978- author.

Series:

Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia

Studies in early American economy and society from the library company of Philadelphia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state--New England--History--19th century.

Agriculture and state.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--New England--History--19th century.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

History.

New England.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Author Ron traces how middle-class farmers in the "Greater Northeast" built a movement of semi-public agricultural societies, fairs, and periodicals that, together, fundamentally recast the relationship of rural people to market forces and governing structures. A novelty of his historical interpretation is that he posits agrarian reform in the North as an antithesis to the slaveholding South rather than industrialization as has been traditionally juxtaposed with the South's plantation economy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I RISE OF THE AGRICULTURAL REFORM MOVEMENT

1. The Limits of Patrician Agricultural Reform

2. Agricultural Reform as a State-Building Social Movement

pt. II THE MAKING OF NORTHERN ECONOMIC NATIONALISM

3. Economic Nationalism in the Greater Rural Northeast

4. Henry C. Carey and the Republican Developmental Synthesis

pt. III TOWARD A NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL POLICY AGENDA

5. A Crisis of Agricultural Expertise

6. From "Private Enterprise" to "Governmental Action"

pt. IV AGRICULTURAL REFORM VERSUS THE SLAVEOCRACY

7. Movement into Lobby

8. The Sectionalization of National Agricultural Policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421439327

1421439328

OCLC:

1140351310

Publisher Number:

99987277065